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Date: September 22, 2012 09:41AM
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From Wikipedia:
Disclosure Violation Allegations
In March 2009, [Fred] Karger filed a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission alleging that the National Organization for Marriage was established by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to direct church funds toward the passage of Proposition 8.[96] A church spokesman and NOM's then-president Maggie Gallagher both denied the allegations.[97]
Accusations by Karger also lead the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices to schedule consideration of an investigation.[98] Maine laws require that organizations which solicit more than $5,000 for a ballot question campaign file disclosure reports.[99] NOM has contributed $1.6 million to Stand For Marriage Maine, as of October 23, 2009, without filing any disclosure reports.[39] The commission approved an investigation on a 3–2 vote, overriding the recommendation of their staff.[100] NOM responded by filing suit, claiming that the state's election laws violate the Constitution.[39] NOM used the likelihood of their suit's success as an argument to obtain a federal restraining order which would keep them from having to provide donor names before the date of the election; the request was turned down by federal Judge David Brock Hornby.[34] In January 2010, representatives of the group were subpoenaed to appear before the commission. In February, the group requested that those subpoenas be dropped, but the commission voted unanimously to deny that request.[101] On May 23, 2010, Judge John H. Rich III of the U.S. District Court of Maine ordered NOM to submit bank statements and similar documentation, covering the dates from January 1, 2009 forward. The documents were to be submitted to Maine's Commission on Government Ethics and Election Practices within seven days of his ruling.[102][103] On June 24, 2010, the commission rejected NOM's claim that the commission lacked appropriate authority and should thus cease the investigation.[104] In February 2011, Hornby issued a summary judgment ruling Maine's disclosure law valid, which NOM appealed and lost in August 2011.[105] In September 2011, the federal court denied NOM's request to have the case reheard,[106] and in February, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected NOM's request to hear the case.[107] In January, 2012, NOM lost another federal appeal on a different aspect of their Maine case, but said that they would take that to the Supreme Court.[108][109]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Organization_for_Marriage#Stand_for_Marriage_MaineI think that while they can, the cult is going to spend what it can through NOM wherever it can. But they seem to have taken a particular interest in New England, and my thought is that it is because N.E. is a block of states that, despite being a fraction of the total U.S. population, still holds considerable moral-ethical influence with the rest of the nation.